French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1801
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| War of the Second Coalition |
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| 1st Stockach –Cassano – 1st Zürich – Montebello – Trebbia – Novi – Bergen – 2nd Zürich – Castricum – Genoa – 2nd Stockach – Marengo – Hochstadt – Hohenlinden – Copenhagen – Algeciras – Alexandria |
The French Revolutionary Wars continued in 1801 with the French bringing the war against the Second Coalition to a close.
By February 9, the Austrians had signed the Treaty of Lunéville, ending the war on the continent. The war against the United Kingdom continued, and the Turks invaded Egypt in March, losing to Kleber at Heliopolis. The exhausted French, however, surrendered in August.
The naval war also continued, with the United Kingdom maintaining a blockade of France by sea. Non-combatants Russia, Prussia, Denmark, and Sweden joined to protect neutral shipping from British attacks, but were unsuccessful. British Admiral Horatio Nelson defied orders and attacked the Danish fleet in harbor at the Battle of Copenhagen, destroying much of the fleet of one of France's more steady allies during the period. An armistice prevented him from continuing into the Baltic Sea to attack the Russian fleet at Reval (Tallinn). Meanwhile off Gibraltar, the outnumbered French squadron under Linois defeated the British under Saumarez in the first battle of Algeciras, capturing a line-of-battle ship.
